[sustran] Re: Banning NMT (Rickshaw) on roads of Dhaka city

[Mohsin J. Sarker]

Dr. K Z Hoque
Rickshaws have been banned on the main roads, not on narrow roads. You know
that main roads of Dhaka city are wider enough to accommodate at least three
lanes in one way. Lets consider the road from cantonment gate (Old airport)
to Shahabag. This road has three lanes in one way (so far I remember. Last I
went Bangladesh about three years ago). Now if we make one lane exclusive
for NMT, then I think this exclusive one lane of NMT would carry more
persons in unit time than two lanes of motorized transport.


Mohsin J. Sarker
Regional Planning
Utsunomiya University
Email: mohsin_jp at yahoo.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr Kh Zahidul Hoque" <zahidul at hotmail.com>
To: <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: [sustran] Re: Banning NMT (Rickshaw) on roads of Dhaka city


>
> >Dr Zahid wrote:
> >
> > > Regarding exclusive
> > > lane for NMT, I thing Dhaka city is too congested to afford
> > > extra lane for
> > > NMT.
>
> Alok Jain Wrote:
> >
> >All the more reason to promote NMT. Densely built areas are particularly
> >adaptive to NMT. And I am surprised to see no mention of public transport
/
> >modal shift in any of the suggestions.
> >
> >Alok Jain
> >Hong Kong
>
> I am very much interested to know space constraints along the roads are
> particularly adaptive to NMT. While the city roads are so narrow that it
> cannot accommodate existing vehicles and hardly there is any spare
> land/space for an expansion or additional lane, how an exclusive lane for
> NMT could be justified?
>
> Public transport/modal shift will definitely come in for detail study. Of
> course, when you ban NMT on the major roads, there should be sufficient
> public tarnsport to facilitate modal shift from those NMT.
>
> K Z Hoque
> Singapore
>
>
>
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